135. bailiwick
“Why do we have to wear these too?”
As she grumbled while glancing down at the tight suit, Tana in a yellow dress gave a puzzled expression, asking what was obvious.
“Then are you going to go and dress as a servant? You don’t have time to do anything because you’re being called around and serving people?”
“……”
It was such a logical answer that I couldn’t say anything else. He just stared at Tana, who checked and adjusted her clothes.
“Are you interested in decorating things?”
“You are a female student. Isn’t that obvious?”
Recalling the past when she decorated Eve, Tana had a lot of interest in decorating and seemed to have her own talent.
“You have a strangely wild side, so let’s undo a few buttons like this and decorate it like this.”
“If it’s a wild thing, shouldn’t it be that I have to take it all off and walk around?”
It was quite a joke about conversion, but Tana immediately punches her stomach with her fist and gets annoyed.
“You know you look like a real uncle when you joke?”
“……”
“Don’t open your mouth. Even if you open your mouth, you only say hello. Don’t even think about trying to cover up something you don’t know with a strange joke for nothing.”
hitting me too hard
After Tana decorated it, when I looked at myself in the full-length mirror, the tee was definitely decorated. She smiled and shook her head to see if she was satisfied.
“Good?”
“I said it before, how do you think going this way? I think it will work out well if we work together with Hayoon.”
“Eh? I?”
Tana answers with an expression that she really couldn’t imagine. After taking a turn in front of the full-length mirror and affirming it, I suddenly put my chin on my chin and start thinking about it.
“Hmm, I definitely like decorating. If it’s Hayoon, I think he’ll make the clothes I want.”
“Looking at you decorating Eve and me, you have a lot of sense. Do you think it’s possible enough?”
“……I have to think about it. I have ties to the Meias family no matter how branched out they are, but running a clothing store is a bit sensible.”
Originally, it was only natural that the children of great nobles could not decide their own dreams. Hayoon was similar.
“Then let’s go. Let’s go and have a simple dance.”
“Um, shouldn’t I get caught?”
“Hey, it’s a place where hundreds of nobles come. Even if you’re a prince, you won’t even be able to see you.”
In particular, Prince Oliver will have to keep his seat and move quite busy in order to support the decrepit wise king.
“Then let’s go.”
Following Tana’s lead, I headed to the banquet hall with her to wish for the good health of the present king today.
The banquet hall was so huge and gorgeous that I had never seen such a luxurious place in my life. Me and Tana couldn’t help but cringe in surprise, like a country mouse that came up in the city.
“Oh…”
“Hey, you put a lot of effort into it.”
But it seemed it wasn’t just us. Even aristocrats who would have attended enough to get tired of any banquet came in in awe at the scale of this banquet.
“Food is no joke.”
“Wow, is that so? Isn’t that a shark egg?”
I can’t eat right away because the banquet hasn’t started yet. Sitting in the chair, Tana and I talked about where to start and which to attack first.
As far as concentration was concerned, Prince Oliver’s brief opening remarks, announcing the start of the banquet, were over halfway through.
The current king, who was struggling to breathe due to illness, was forced to sit in his seat, and Prince Oliver was holding a microphone and talking in his place.
The content was clear.
The eternal life of the king and the infinite and splendid future of the kingdom. To be honest, I didn’t listen until the middle because I was talking about food with Tana, and the other half made eye contact with another woman.
“……”
To be more precise, he made eye contact with the shaman of time who was sitting on the royal seat provided by the prince, and had a bit of a nervous battle with her.
To the extent that it felt like a fool to be on the lookout from this side, the other side greeted me with a smile and raised my hand.
After the prince’s speech, me and Tana headed to the huge chunk of meat that the most expensive-looking chef had prepared himself.
“What kind of meat is this?”
The smell itself was so strong, Tana, who was the first in line, asked with a smile. The cook answered the little girl with a smile.
“It is the meat of a beast called Big Ship.”
“Yes? Is this a big ship?”
A beast that claims to be a prey, which is rare even in the Demon Realm Forest. He was very grateful to have a huge body that made him prey on beasts.
I’ve seen it in the Encyclopedia of Demonic Beasts that it inhabits more places other than the Forest of the Demon Realm.
For reference, I caught and ate it several times, but I remember giving up eating it because it smelled fishy and the meat was too tough.
“Haha, you are surprised. It is a ferocious monster that the knights of our kingdom hunted with great difficulty and brought it back. The meat is very tough and fishy, but we processed it for a long time with special seasonings and seasonings.”
When placing it on a plate, if you break the cut meat, it will come out softly. Meat spitting out steam. I never thought the day would come when I looked at the meat of the big ship and thought it was delicious.
In addition to that, I return to the table with a lot of food that I don’t normally eat. Tana also returned with a fairly generous load of food, and we smiled and grabbed our forks and knives.
“I will enjoy this food!”
“I will enjoy this food!”
We immediately started inhaling.
It was a feast of taste that made me want to praise myself for doing a really good job, even though I purposely starved since the morning because there was a banquet today.
I’ve heard that Prince Oliver puts a lot of effort into this banquet, but I don’t think the food will be this delicious.
“It melts, melts.”
It’s hard to move when you’re too full, so it’s a little disappointing to have to be satisfied with just one plate.
Tana, too, was looking at the food with regret as she lost her appetite.
Classical music at that time. A dance time not to be missed at a banquet. I thought it was fun to go round and round, but Tana came up to me and took my hand and led me.
“let’s go! Let’s go and dance!”
“why. I hate it.”
“It’s fun!”
He comes out on stage without being able to be led by Tana’s hand. What should I do if Prince Oliver caught my eye, but he was busy and went out somewhere.
It bothered me that the Maiden of Time was clapping her hands slowly saying it was fun, but first, I followed Tana and stood on the stage.
Anyway, the stage was wide enough to play soccer, and there were so many people that we could barely stand out, so we didn’t really stand out.
The performance started, and I started dancing to Tana’s feet.
“Well? What, are you dancing better than you think?”
“I’ve danced once before.”
“Something is like that.”
I still vividly remember the time I danced with Elise at the masquerade ballroom. I didn’t know that there would suddenly be a sword strike.
‘If you think about it, wouldn’t that be the starting point of all the incidents?’
At that time, I went to ask Elise directly. If I hadn’t gone there myself, he wouldn’t have gone crazy and clung to me.
“ha.”
“What sigh? Did you hate it that much?”
Thinking of Elise, I sighed unconsciously, and Tana asked with her eyebrows wriggling.
“No, I was just thinking about the old days.”
It seems very old, but when you look at it, it’s not that old. But maybe it was because of the old days, Tana smiled and said.
“Hey, but come to think of it, haven’t you and I known each other for the longest time?”
“Are you with Rin and Ares?”
“Ah, they are outsiders. you’re a childhood friend Since you came to the academy, your friend, I am the first.”
“……What, right?”
If you think about it, yes.
“I turned my eyes to Ares and came to my room and asked why I was playing with Ares.”
“Oh, I was just talking about this.”
Tana tilts her head while kicking her tongue. It was a pretty embarrassing memory, so the words are quicker.
“At the time, I thought it was real love! How can you understand the complexities of love at such a young age!”
“Okay.”
Even I, who lived until the age of 28, was proposed to by Eris, and I only get a sense of it after she dies. How can I know you?
“Sheesh, that sucks. I didn’t call you to say that.”
“Well? What did you have to say?”
He usually talks a lot, but today he is especially talkative. I wanted something, but Tana opened her mouth just at the timing of a short dance break when the performance moved on to the next song.
“I was going to say thank you. For following me like this and for not letting me become a lady-in-waiting.”
“……”
“If I had been alone, I would have given up. I would have just accepted it thinking it was fate. Even though Eve, Hayun, Sendo, and Mei are growing and shedding their shells. Because I couldn’t.”
I couldn’t deny that it was wrong.
In fact, if I hadn’t helped her, she’d have lost an ugly match against the twins.
But now that she has overcome that, she believes that she too will move forward.
“I know you suffered because of me. Thank you so much and I’m sorry.”
“It’s okay, you’re my friend.”
I don’t know about Tana, but she is very valuable to me. It was rare for me to be able to speak so comfortably without any rational worries.
“That’s right, my friend.”
Tana smiles softly.
A word seemed to linger in her mouth, but she finally shut her mouth and swallowed it hard before choosing another word.
“But I’m not the only friend with you. Eve and I are friends too.”
“yes? right.”
The hands that are clasped together again to dance, the strength goes in. Tana gave a warning with a smile like a village bad boy.
“So you can’t make Eve ring, okay?”
“……”
I remember hearing this warning once before.
Obviously, in Batian, Saint Lucia declared that I would not let her go if Mei rings.
“You don’t answer?”
“That is… not a question I can answer.”
“hey.”
“No, you know. There is someone else I like.”
“Whoa, I don’t know! Take responsibility for yourself!”
“It’s really great.”
As she pouts and grumbles, Tana can’t hold back her laughter and bursts into laughter.
“Hey, don’t pretend to be cute. Because it annoys me.”
“I wasn’t pretending to be cute.”
It’s the first time I’ve ever heard the word cute, so I’m embarrassed for nothing. Tana looks at me like that and takes a long breath.
“Why did everyone fall in love with this kid?”
“You talk really badly. I don’t know either.”
As we continued to quarrel, all of a sudden the performance was over and the dance was over. Then Prince Oliver appeared, smiling and holding the microphone.
The witch of time began to move.
As I was about to move right after her, I felt a small palm on my back.
I glanced behind me, and Tana smiled trustingly and pushed me.
“Go and do what you do best. When I’m done, I’ll take the meat and leave it for you to eat.”
“What am I good at?”
When I asked back because I was a little curious, Tana crossed her arms and shook her head.
“Don’t you know that? You said give it all and come back.”
“ah……”
exactly.
“It’s not my specialty.”